Greetings from Boise
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor
The 2024 Legislative session started on Jan. 8 with a cautiously optimistic State of the State address by Gov. Brad Little. His proposed …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Idaho’s budget committee loses integrity
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Budgets are moral documents,” because they show our real values. Allocating our public dollars demands thoughtful, transparent deliberations. …
Fight or flight
By Diana Dawson
Reader Contributor
I was 16 when I had my first transformative political experience. It was 1967 and I had been selected as an American Field Service student. …
2023 game of the year: Baldur’s Gate 3
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Contributor
I never played any Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, but I always wished I did.
When I rolled that famous 20-sided die for the …
2023 game of the year: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The mark of an incredible game is the ability to return to it in different moods and stages of life and have the experience be …
What do Led Zeppelin, Leonard Nimoy and Joni Mitchell have in common?
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The experienced cinephile, or anyone who was a teenage girl in 2013, will be familiar with Howard Shore’s astounding soundtracks to The Lord of the …
Hot springs people
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Hot Springs People. If you know, you know.
While there aren’t any natural hot springs in our immediate region, drive a couple hours in any …
Governor’s school proposal too ‘Little,’ too late
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
If we truly valued our children, we would ensure they spend their days in safe school buildings. But decades of neglect have caused Idaho …
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along …
208 Fiction competition results
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration …
Letters
- Where is the Line…? Dear Editor, Donald Trump said his supporters would let him commit murder. I DON’T BELIEVE IT! My question is where do you, Trump supporter, draw the line? I’ve heard Trump praised for being an honest liar. His shameful performance in Helsinki was described in a letter as the act of a good ...
- Unwanted Robocalls… Dear Editor, A number of Bonner County community members have received very unsettling anti-Semitic robocalls lately. The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force is aware of the calls and recommends anyone who receives a call to notify police. In this way the calls can be tracked. BCHRTF has contacted Southern Poverty ...
- What Happened to GOP…? Dear Editor, What’s happened to the Republican Party we used to know? I remember when being a fiscal conservative used to be the calling card of the Republican party, but today they have completely rejected that philosophy by endorsing a spending bill — that while providing millions of dollars in tax relief ...
- Un-Fair Timing… Dear Editor, Just want to wish all a good time at the 4-H and commercial goods show Aug. 8-11 this year. Also that you don’t mind paying admission to a public tax-supported event (it’s not a parking fee folks. Park across Boyer in the LDS lot and walk across, you still ...
- Twisted Kilt… Dear Editor, This is in response to Lawrence Fury’s letter in the Aug. 2 issue: I don’t believe that anyone went out of their way to report Twisted Kilt Black Iron Grill to the company serving the C&D. Unfortunately, copyright, trademark and patent law are very weakly enforced, and in almost every ...
Reader in Print
Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Egg Hunts, a Play, a Shoreline Cleanup, Fundraising, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
